Mark Todd

Charisma was my favorite growing up.

Mark Todd.

Yeah.

Todd was...

I actually have a horse named my, uh, I bred a, my home bred is named Toddy for Mark Todd.

[laughs]

Oh, another legend.

And then also, released today, same day as this show is going out, we have a special episode.

We got to spend almost an hour speaking with a legend of eventing and the FEI's writer of the 20th century, Mark Todd.

Yeah, if you've heard anything about...

You know the name, Mark Todd.

And, you know, to be named FEI's writer of the 20th century is amazing.

Yeah, that's not just a year.

Yeah, and we had a dinner last night in our funny tent by the lake that we've got, and we had all the old cronies there.

I mean, we even had Mark Todd there.

It was so cool.

There was one not-has-been.

Has anyone been around the cross country and all the strings around? Well, in the dark, trying to follow Mr.

Fox Pitt.

No, trying to follow Mr. Todd, Sir Mark Todd, who was leading the way through the strings after...

Quite an entertaining night.

Jesse Campbell, Clark Johnston, and Taylor Mason.

Now this is the same comp where Andrew Nicholson and Sir Mark Todd have both won it five times each.

And Her Royal Highness Princess Anne will present the prizes to the winners on Super Sunday.

So it's going to be a big weekend of sport.

Yes, there was lots of, yeah, innuendo bingo was probably high scoring.

But, you know, everyone from Sir Mark Todd to Oliver Townend, who's actually going to be emotional on Sunday when his great Ballamore class retires.

Ross Cantor came and joined us alongside Nick Turner with their performance mentoring programme.

I had people from the BHS.

Like rugby, the station has a history of being the official radio partner of the Summer Games, meaning our audience heard every golden moment live.

That goes back to the 1988 Seoul Games, and our gold medal winners Sir Mark Todd, the duo of Ian Ferguson and Paul Macdonald, and Bruce Kendall.

[upbeat music] [cheering] Three fences from home, Mark Todd and Charisma at the white fence and over.

Now the double.

At the first and clear, at the second and clear.

[cheering] That's the gold medal.

Through in 116.02, only 5 penalty points, he finishes with a total of 42.6. Mark Todd and Charisma have done it again.

Bruce Kendall, New Zealand.

Like rugby, the station has a history of being the official radio partner of the Summer Games, meaning our audience heard every golden moment live.

[gentle music] That goes back to the 1988 Seoul Games, and our gold medal winners, Sir Mark Todd, the duo of Ian Ferguson and Paul McDonald, and Bruce Kendall.

[cheering] Three fences from home, Mark Todd and Charisma.

At the white fence and over.

Now the double.

At the second and clear.

[cheering] That's the gold medal.

Through in 116.02, only 5 penalty points, he finishes with a total of 42.6. Mark Todd and Charisma have done it again.

Get the legends in the house

... basically Toddy, Mark Todd, William Fox-Pitt, Tina, and myself-

Legends

... are-

Sure you were, Jimmy

[laughs] And, and Mark Todd had just won Burley, and the commentators were saying, "Oh, he's just come back from the richest show jumping, um, show in the world at, at Spruce Meadows." Which for one, I think is absolutely amazing that Mark Todd was doing all of that, 'cause he did the Olympics as a jumper as well, didn't he? As well as the eventing.

Um, but, like, so from a funding point of view, like, and obviously these classes are really ex- like, a £5 million Grand Prix, that's incredible.

How's, how do, how is that maintained? How do you do that? 'Cause I think that's one of the biggest things, especially in my sport, in the eventing sport, is that the prize money is so rubbish.